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No. 518,241. Patented Apr. 17, 1894.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL G. GOSS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE GOSS PRINTINGPRESS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DELIVERY APPARATUS FOR PRINTING-PRESSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 518,241, dated April17, 1894.

: Application filed August 30, 1892. Serial No. 44,552 (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL G. Goss, residing at Chicago, in the countyof Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Delivery Apparatus for Printing-Presses, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is an end elevation showing my improveddelivery apparatus; and Fig. 2 isa top or plan View.

My invention relates to delivery apparatus,

for perfecting presses, in which a plurality of formers is used and thewebs from two or more formers are associated.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved deliveryapparatus for use in such presses, which object I accomplish ashereinafter specified, and as illustrated in the drawings.

That which I regard as new will be pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings,-1 indicates the bed plate, upon which are mountedcutting and folding frames 2 and 3 movable toward each other. The frames2 and 3 will in practice carry suitable folding apparatus, but as suchfolding apparatus may be of any known construction and constitutes nopart of my present invention, I do not deem it essential to illustratethe same.

4, 5 indicate formers arranged over the frames 2 and 3, and preferablysupported by said frames. The formers 4 and 5 may be otherwise supportedif desired, however.

6, 7 indicate rollers adapted to receive the longitudinally folded webfrom the f0rmer4.

8, 9 indicate similar rollers, adapted to receive the web from theformer 5. The rollers 6, 7, 8 and 9 are mounted in the two frames2and 3,as shown, and the web from the rollers 6 and 7 is adapted to beconducted across and associated with the web delivered by the former 5,for which tapes 10 and 11 are provided. The tapes 10epass over theroller 7 and tape rollers 12 carried by the frame 2; and the tapes 11are carried by tape rollers 13 and let carried by the frames 3 and 2respectively. The web from the former-4 passes between the rollers 6 and7, and is thence car- I'lul by the tapes 10 and 11 to the rollers 8 and9, passing over the roller 9, and being associated with the web from theformer 5 as it passes between the rollers 8 and 9; the two webs willthen pass together between the roll.

ers 8 and 9, and may afterward beiold'eda nd delivered by suitablemechanism.

The formers 4 and 5 are adjustable toward each other in order to providefor printing wider or narrower sheets as may be desired,

and the frames 2 and 3 are also adjustable toward eachother,substantially as described in 19 indicates a roller, the oppositeends of t which are journaled in the two boxes 17 and 18 so that it willbe moved vertically as the boxes are moved. The tapes 10 and 11 passunder the roller 19, as shown in Fig. 1;

20, 21indicate arms which are pivoted to the lower portion of the boxes17 and 18, which arms are adapted to slightly swing and carry taperollers 22, 23, around which the lower portions of the tapes 11 pass, asindicated by dotted lines in Fig.1.

24, 25 indicate arms which are adapted to swing and are pivoted to theupper portion of the boxes 17 and 18, and carry tape rollers v26 and 27,under which pass the upper portions of the tapes 10, as shown by dottedlines in Fig. 1.

By the means described the boxes 17 and 18 can be adjusted, but thelength of the tape pathway through which the sheets pass will bemaintained constant, regardless of the position of the frames 2 and 3.

28, 29 indicate connecting rods which connect the boxes 17 and 18 withbell crank levers 30, 31, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The bell cranklevers 30, 31 are pivotally mounted in suitable supports, and areconnected to the frame 3 by connecting bars 32, as shown in Fig. 1. Theextremities of the arms of the bell-crank levers are slotted to looselyengage pins on the arms 32, for the purpose of permitting the slightplay necessary, owing to the rotation of the arms of the lever in thearc of a circle. The arms 32 are fixed, and therefore when the arms ofthe bell-crank levers to which they are attached are operated there mustbe a loose connection between said arms 32, and the arms of thebellcrank lever S. The same remarks apply to the rods 28 and 29, and thearms of the bellcrank levers connected with said rods. By thisconstruction when the frames 2 and 3 are moved toward each other thebell crank levers 30 and 31 will be operated to move the boxes 17 and 1Sdownward thereby moving the rollers carried by said boxes downward, andkeeping the proper amount of tension on the tapes 10 and 11. hen theframes 2 and 3 are moved away from each other the boxes 17 and 18 willbe moved upward, thereby diminishing the tension upon the tapes 10 and11 and permitting them to rise, as would be necessary by the separationof the frames 2 and 3; the tension, however, will be substantially thesame. By this construction the length of the tapes is kept constantnotwithstanding, the movement of the frames 2 and 3. Any suitablemechanism may be used for operating the frames 2 and 3, and any suitabledevices may be provided for adjusting the formers 4t and 5 when they aremoved toward or away from each other to provide for printing narrower orwider webs.

That which I regard as my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

-1. The combination of a series of formers adjustable toward and fromeach other, and web-associating devices movable With said formers forassociating the webs received therefrom, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a plurality of formers adjustable toward and fromeach other, web-associating devices movable with said formers forassociating the webs received therefrom, and means, substantially asdescribed, for maintainingthe length of the pathway through which thesheets pass con stant to insure the proper register of the associatedwebs.

8. The combination with a plurality of supporting frames, rollerscarried thereby, and means for adjusting said frames toward each other,of tapes for associating the webs delivered to said rollers, and devicesfor automatically keeping the distance to he traveled by the websconstant, substantially as described.

4E. The combination with supporting frames adjustable toward each other,of tapes adapted to conduct a web from one of said frames to the other,and means for automatically keeping the length of the tape pathwaythrough which the sheets pass constant, substantially as described.

5. The combination with frames adjustable toward each other, and tapesadapted to conduct the web from one of said frames to the other, ofvertically movable rollers adapted to bear upon said tapes, supportingdevices for said rollers, and means for adjusting said rollers as theframes are caused to approach or recede from each other, substantiallyas described.

6. The combination with frames adjustable toward each other, tapes 10and 11, and tape rollers for supporting said tapes, of standards, boxes17 and 18 adapted to move Vertically in said standards, rollers 19, 22and 26 carried by said boxes, said rollers 26, being laterally movable,and means for moving said boxes vertically as the frames are caused toapproach or recede from each other, substantially as described.

7. The combination with frames 2 and 3 adjustable toward each other, andtapes adapted to conduct a web from one of said frames to the other, ofstandards, boxes l7 and 18 adapted to move vertically in said standards,rollers carried by said boxes adapted to bear upon said tapes, and theuppermost rollers being laterally movable, and bell crank levers 30 and31 connected to said boxes and to one of said frames, substantially asdescribed.

SAMUEL G. GOSS.

Witnesses:

J OHN L. JACKSON, RALPH: VAN DYKE.

